“Reality got James Dean.”
Natalie Mering speaks to Victoria Segal.
Weyes Blood, AKA Natalie Mering: “it’s about that fire in the darkness.”
You’ve said And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow is the second part of a trilogy – was that always the plan?
“When I finished Titanic Rising, I felt that before I was ready for a real departure, first there would be another record made like that, with acoustic instruments and those kind of songs. Titanic Rising was sounding the alarm about all the stuff that could happen – and then it all did happen, so I had to respond to that. I didn’t get to make the really uplifting, hopeful, march-into-the-future record – I was like, ‘That will be the third after this one.’”